How to set up some basic visual branding

Description

Collection: Advanced Site Building in Drupal 7Chapter: How to Set Up Administration Tools to Speed Up Productivity

Before jumping into site building a project, it helps to set up a little branding so you know what site you're working on (imaging juggling a dozen projects at a time and they all look the same) and to give it some of the feel that the final product will have. In this video we upload a custom logo and set a grey color scheme. Easy peasy!

Transcript

Before getting into how we're going to organize the content on this site, let's add a little bit of visual branding so we know what site we're working on and also it can be a little bit of a morale boost when we're looking at something that's not entirely generic. So I'm going to exit over this overlay here and what we're going to do is upload a different logo. We're going to hide this because the logo includes the title of the site and then we're going to change the background color of the header to be a gray that matches up more with the branding of Gift of Geek.

So I'm going to click on Appearance, Settings, and just a quick note that when we go here we're at the global settings section and we can change most of our settings here but we can't change the color settings. We have to do that in Bartik. So the other two things we have to do besides change the background color is disable the site name and upload ...

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Skill focus: Site BuildingSkill level: Intermediate - Advanced

Get ready for a dive into some of Drupal's most powerful tools for site builders. Here we look deep into Views, Panels, Display Suite, and Context modules for laying out Drupal pages. We uncover importing content into a Drupal site with the Feeds module, build and customize a slideshow with Views Slideshow and immerse ourselves in ways to spam-proof our site. Most importantly, we look at how all of these tools work together and how to decide which tools are best for which situation.

Before watching this series, you will need a fresh Drupal 7 installation. Follow the videos in the Setting Up a Web Environment With Drupal to get Drupal set up on your Windows, OSX (Mac) or Linux machine.

Some of the key points we'll be covering include:

How to set up administrative tools to speed up your building process.

How to configure content types and decide when to share fields and other configuration.

How to use the Panels modules to position content

How to use Display Suite for positioning content and building new view modes without code!

Working with advanced Views tools like relationships and argument-passing

How to build a slideshow with Views

How to import content into your site using the Feeds module

Who this collection is for

This collection is for anyone who wants to learn the most powerful tools and techniques for organizing and positioning content on a Drupal site. This will of course be useful for determining which techniques to use on your own projects, but because we will cover the most common techniques you will be likely to run into when working with existing Drupal projects, this collection will help you tremendously when working on a team.

Prerequisites

A basic familiarity with Drupal concepts and terminology will be useful. If you start to feel lost, you may want to review the "Build Your First Drupal 7 Web Site" collection where we cover these. This collection is intended as a kind of sequel to that collection, so we build off of the ideas from it.

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